1. Water soaked soil; soft wet earth
   "The children's shoes were covered in mud after playing in the field";
   - clay
    
2. Slanderous remarks or charges
   "The political campaign devolved into mud-slinging between the candidates"

1. Soil with mud, muck, or mire
   - mire, muck, muck up [informal]
    
2. (masonry) plaster with mud
   "The workers mudded the walls of the adobe house"

Derived forms: muds, mudded, mudding

Type of: begrime, bemire [archaic], colly [archaic], daub, dirt, dirty, grime, plaster, slander, soil

Encyclopedia: Mud, Sweat & Gears